Home in Kansas..... Reflecting on Ct.

As we often do, we never even turned on the radio in the car Friday..  I was busy negotiating the snow and the storm..  And once beyond the weather, we just traveled along talking between ourselves....

So when I wrote last night's blog, I was unaware of the tragedy in CT or the fact that young people had perished...   Once the blog was posted, I managed to turn on the TV for some quiet time before bed.......  Loyce had already gone to sleep....  And that's when I found out...

This morning when we left the motel, we had seen some of the coverage while we were eating breakfast in the lobby...  The mostly cold rolls and coffee stuff that comes with rooms these days....

When we were on the road, I tried to get our portable satellite receiver to work in the Toyota, but since it is an aftermarket gizmo it didn't want to pick up the signal...

So we have been mostly without coverage on this tragic thing in an elementary school....  We can't get our mind around how this could have occurred, and perhaps we will have missed all of the nonstop coverage....  But I think that is just as well....   I am just totally sorry for all of those involved and have no way to make anything right or better for them....  We are mostly helpless... Prayers...

Anyway we left Tucumcari at 9AM Central time this morning, as I had changed our watches last night as we fell asleep...  So it seemed kind of late when I glanced at the time this morning and it said 7 AM, but when you're half asleep, I just got up and didn't question my watch...

It really wasn't until I got back in the car to leave and the clock there said 8AM that I thought oh ya,  but I just reached up and changed the thing to read 9...

And that was correct quite quickly because in about an hour of driving, we crossed into Texas where it was Central time...  We stopped in Dalhart where Loyce likes the C store and bought some lunch items...

We buzzed right thru the no man's land of the Oklahoma panhandle... not stopping for anything but the traffic lights...  And we made Liberal, Kansas by 1 PM...

By now the weather was warming up as we began to see temperatures in the 50s and the Western Kansas sun was brilliant...  It's always sunny in West Kansas!!  But its long out across those plains...  3 o'clock in Greensburg, 4 o'clock in Pratt, and 5 o'clock Hutchinson....  We stopped there for a McD's as there is no Wendy's out on the highway anyway....

I was pushing the speed as much as I dared, because we wanted to make it home....   It was dark at Emporia where we picked up Interstate 35 and the legal 75 mph speedlimit...  But by now I was fairly tired, so I just set it on 75 and quit pushing...

We came in about 7:30 to a cold house...  I was feeling frugal when we left, so the heat was set at 45 degrees....  The sun in the afternoon had it about 50 in here.....

Most of our stuff is now inside the house, and we are deciding what we should have brought home with us but didn't...  But hey we will only be here for a couple of weeks tops...  Like going for a vacation back to your most of the time home....

That's the fun of it, finding different things in your closet to wear that you had forgotten about....

Messing with Google maps, I measured 1,150 miles over the way we came this time...  Which I think is as short as we have ever made it...  But not too sure about the trip thru the desolate part of New Mexico...  Wouldn't want something to go wrong out there.....  Almost worse than West Texas as far as miles from help...

I seem to be tired tonight,  .......

Retired Rod